Richmond, South Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°21′50″N 1°23′42″W / 53.364°N 1.395°W / 53.364; -1.395

Richmond
Shown within Sheffield
Population	17,700 (2011)
District	Sheffield
Ceremonial county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Sheffield Heeley
Councillors	John Campbell (Labour Party) Lynn Rooney (Labour Party) Paul Wood (Labour Party)
List of places UK England Yorkshire

Richmond ward—which includes the districts of Four Lane Ends, Intake, Richmond, and Woodthorpe—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the southern part of the city and covers an area of 4.5 km². The population of this ward in 2011 was 17,724 people in 7,827 households.^[1] It is one of the five wards that form the Sheffield Heeley parliamentary constituency. The boundary is to change at the local elections in May 2016.

Districts of Richmond Ward

Richmond

Richmond grid reference SK403854 is a suburb of eastern Sheffield.

Richmond was historically a small settlement consisting of a few cottages and Richmond Hall Farm, built in 1668 and demolished in 1966. Gateposts from the farm, which may have originally flanked an entrance to Sheffield Park, can still be seen amidst a housing estate dating from the late 1960s.^[2]

Intake

Intake (grid reference SK386846) lies south of Manor Top. It is primarily a 1930s residential area known as the area where Jarvis Cocker grew up.

Woodthorpe

Built in the 1930s, Woodthorpe (grid reference SK392852) lies to the east of Intake. It has two pubs, the "High Noon" and "The Springwood", and also has a primary school (Woodthorpe), which was rebuilt in September 2005. However now "The Springwood" has closed down due to unpopular demand in the area and it is now abandoned and boarded up.

References

1. ↑ http://ukcensusdata.com/richmond-e05001059#sthash.KPQmKU4r.dpbs
2. ↑ J. Edward Vickers, "The Ancient Suburbs of Sheffield", p.14 (1971)